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The Hanged Man

Season 1 1975

  • 1975-02-15T00:00:00Z on ITV
  • 50m
  • 6h 48m (8 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Drama, Crime
After surviving a series of attempts on his life, successful businessman Lew Burnett decides to remain "dead" after the most recent one so he can go undercover and find out which of his close friends and business associates want him dead.

8 episodes

Series Premiere

1975-02-15T00:00:00Z

1x01 Wheel of Fortune

Series Premiere

1x01 Wheel of Fortune

  • 1975-02-15T00:00:00Z51m

The wheel spins from a wounded scramble across moors to a wages robbery to raise funds for survival.

1975-02-22T00:00:00Z

1x02 Tower of Destruction

1x02 Tower of Destruction

  • 1975-02-22T00:00:00Z51m

The tower is the high skeletal framework above a power station under construction. Burnett and Crowe go back over the private airfield and the ashes of the plane crash that killed Burnett's wife.

1975-03-01T00:00:00Z

1x03 Knave of Coins

1x03 Knave of Coins

  • 1975-03-01T00:00:00Z51m

The Knave is an accountant in Locarno, protected by bodyguards and an electrified fence - the architect of embezzlement. And some of it is Burnett's money.

1975-03-08T00:00:00Z

1x04 Chariot of Earth

1x04 Chariot of Earth

  • 1975-03-08T00:00:00Z51m

The chariot drives across the coast of Scotland where North Sea oil and the land where it will devour conflict in a struggle for the world's highest stakes. This is where one of Burnett's ex-partners realised ambition when he bought a Highland estate and its lairdship.

1975-03-15T00:00:00Z

1x05 The Bridge Maker

1x05 The Bridge Maker

  • 1975-03-15T00:00:00Z51m

That's what they called Lew Burnett when he ran a contract in a totalitarian police state. If he goes back to find answers he will find himself accessory to corruption, under sentence of death, and will be chained to a prison wall.

1975-03-21T23:00:00Z

1x06 Grail and Platter

1x06 Grail and Platter

  • 1975-03-21T23:00:00Z51m

The polished practitioners of organised crime in Detroit learn that Burnett is alive and can still provide something they want.

1975-03-28T23:00:00Z

1x07 Laws of Fortune

1x07 Laws of Fortune

  • 1975-03-28T23:00:00Z51m

The laws are the tricky rules of high finance which Burnett has played all his commercial life and has to play again, on the run and under darkness.

Season Finale

1975-04-04T23:00:00Z

1x08 Ring of Return

Season Finale

1x08 Ring of Return

  • 1975-04-04T23:00:00Z51m

Tons of concrete are poured onto a motorway bridge - and the police want Crowe and Burnett for murder.

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